Purr: Started to veer a little closer to action roles of late, largely thanks to the punchy comic book stylings of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and her femme fatale role. Sultry to smiley in the blink of a costume change.

Hiss: Looks at risk of blowing away in the next stiff breeze. Which is presumably why she still hasn’t done any hoodlum thumping before.

Vinyl Score: An inappropriately willowy 5.

Cat In Hell’s Chance? We don’t reckon this’ll be the one that gets the cream. 4 lives out of 9.

Purr: Box office catnip. Looks as though she could probably pack an impressive wallop. Equipped herself admirably as Octopus apologist in The Spirit .

Hiss: A bit on the young side, if we’re being absolute sticklers for realism. Although, y’know, perhaps exceptions aren’t always a bad thing...

Vinyl Score:: Can we do a Nigel Tufnel, and make this one go up to 11?

Cat In Hell’s Chance? If she was actually up for it, nobody else would stand a snowball in hell’s chance. Quite unlikely, of course, but blind optimism prevents us from awarding anything lower than 8 lives left.

Purr: Could clearly pummel seven bells out of anyone idiotic enough to step to her. Actually looks far more like the character from the original comic books than anyone else we can think of. Plus she’s just, y’know, implausibly awesome.

Hiss: If poor Peter Parker really had broken up with her at some point in the past, she’d have eaten him for breakfast. Despite there only being five years’ difference, Tobey Maguire just doesn’t have that ‘older woman’ look about him.

Vinyl Score: A statuesque 9.

Cat In Hell’s Chance? Don’t see why not, and it’d make us grin like Cheshire Cats. 8 lives left.

Hiss: Don’t really see her as a platinum blonde sorta woman - there's a very good reason why she got the gig as live action model for the Tomb Raider games, and it involves lots of words like ‘sultry’.

Vinyl Score: An effortlessly distracting 8.

Cat In Hell’s Chance? You’d get no argument from us, regardless of how risibly wiggy the wig looked. We still can’t go any higher than 7 lives left, though. Sigh.

Purr: Another English entry! And another one with more horror/fantasy/general comic brawling experience ( Underworld , Van Helsing , Whiteout ) than you could shake a whole bunch of fists at! We’re doing well here, us plucky islanders.

Hiss: We can’t really think of a hiss. WE CAN’T REALLY THINK OF A HISS!

Purr: We’re essentially basing this entirely on Angel-A , as she was unswervingly mesmeric in every scene. Largely because Luc Besson pretended she was about 12’ tall. (She’s only actually about 10’.)

Hiss: What she has done has been fairly solid, but let’s face facts - you couldn’t wrap a stick of gum in her filmography, so Raimi would be wheeling her in as more of an eye-catching curio than anything.

Vinyl Score: They’d have to increase the vinyl budget by about 50%, but you’d be unlikely to hear anyone outside the costume department protesting. A towering 10.

Cat In Hell’s Chance? Probably a bit of a furball, in truth. 2 lives left.

Purr: Easily intriguing enough a personality to be a masked crusader in real life. Does a great line in the sort of withering sarcasm that could strip paint at 50 paces. Recently showed a worryingly animalistic side in Black Snake Moan .

Hiss: So very, very wee. Also, there’s a distinctly cherubic vibe - albeit a twisted one - to her, which clashes somewhat with the black catsuit.

Vinyl Bonus: A rarely flaunted 7.

Cat In Hell’s Chance? We’re going to stick our collective neck out and say that, despite the fact they might have to make two sets of differently sized props, she’d sink her claws in brilliantly. 7 lives left.